As if she didn't already have enough troubles to deal with, German chancellor 's miseries deepened last week with the resignation of one of her leading political allies, President Horst Köhler. Köhler, 67, gave Merkel less than two hours' notice before going on live television to announce his decision, which was apparently driven by his anger over the hefty criticism he had received for appearing to advocate gunboat diplomacy over 's military participation in Afghanistan. As a former head of the International Monetary Fund, Köhler was the man to whom Merkel had turned in recent months for advice over the financial crisis and whose "authoritative voice", as she put it, she had greatly valued....
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